Child&#39;s garment



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A. NICQDEMUS CHILD'S GARMENT Filed Jan, 14 1924 1727/62 72 25 07" flmzcidi'coeiemufl Patented Aug. 11, 1925.

STATES ANNA NICODEMUS, O'F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

OHILIDS GARMENT.

Application filed. January 14, 1924. Serial No. 685,941.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

1 Be it known that I, ANNA Nroomnros, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Childrens Garments, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in childrens garments, andparticularly to a childs garment which is adapted to cover the upperpart of the body and to support the clothingfor the lower part of thebody. One object is to provide such a garment which will be simple andcheap to manufacture. Another object is the provision of such a garmentin which the downward pull of the nether garments tends to draw the armor shoulder bands inwardly toward the neck and to keep them positionedon the childs shoulder. Another object is to provide a garment in whichthere is no possi bility of binding under or about the arms no matterhow tight the garment may be elsewhere. Another object is to provide agarment with no buttons on front or back except the supporting buttonson which the nether garments are secured. Other obiects will appear fromtime to time in the course of the specification and claims.

I illustrate my invention more or less diagrammatically in theaccompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of the extended finished garment showing all parts ofit;

Figure 2 is a view of the blank from which the rear of the garment isformed;

Figure 3 is a side view illustrating the garment as buttoned;

Figure 4- is a section on an enlarged scale on the line 4- l of Figure1; and

Figure 5 is a section on an enlarged scale along the line 55 of Figure1.

Like parts are illustrated by like characters throughout the drawingsand specification.

A is the back of the garment and is formed from the blank A of theFigure 2, and is indented at the center as at A to form the spaced,substantially vertical edges A A In forming the finished garment thelower portion of the blank A is folded together until the edges A A meetand over-lap, the upper portion of the blank being folded to form thepleats B, B which terminate at the shoulder at B B The edges of theblank are turned in at the lines A, A and sewed along the seams O, Oproviding a broad area along the side of the garment of doubled cloth.

Finally the belt strip D is sewed along the bottom of the rear of theblank, serving to hold the garment in permanent shape, to reinforce it,to prevent pulling out of the darts and to support the buttons.

On the rear of the garment there are three pairs of buttons, each buttonbeing secured by a tape which is sewed into the belt.

I prefer to provide a center pair of buttons E adjacent the meeting ofthe darts B, B with the belt 1;, and a side pair of buttons E E sewedinto each end of the belt. The top of'the belt is turned over and sewedas at E and the tapes of the upper buttons E are caught under and heldby the seam sewed therethrough. The edges of the garment may be boundwith any suitable binding, Gr.

As a supplemental fastening means to hold the garment secure under thearm pits, I provide any suitable fastening means herein shown as snapsH, H

The front I of the garment is in general similar to thevrear, exceptthat the blank of which it is made has no indentation or cutawayportion, and is not provided with pleats or gores, and only one pair ofbuttons J is provided, that being in the center of the front. The beltportion J is provided at each end with button-holes J J 3 which serve topermit the passage of the buttons E E of the rear portion of thegarment.

The tabs K, K may be sewed into the belt to serve as attaching means forgarters.

It will be realized that while I have illustrated a practical andeflicient garment, nevertheless many changes might be made in size,shape, proportion or parts and in securing means without departing fromthe spirit of my invention and I do not wish to limit myself to thespecific form !herein shown.

The use and operation of my invention are as follows:

The whole garment might be made of one blank shaped like the blank ofFigures 3 and 4, joined together at the shoulder straps. It ispreferable, however, to make it of two blanks so that the top or centerof the shoulder strap is inclined at substantially the angle ofinclination of the childs shoulder. Owing to the shaping or inclinationof the exposed end or shoulder strap edges of the two blanks, the frontblank is belt sections.

unbroken and is broader or wider than the rear blank. sewed, both tostrengthen the garment and to provide a protection beneath the arm anddown the side of the garment. flhe rear blank is first centrally foldedto bring the edges together and these edges are then sewed; the loosefolds of cloth thus formed are then folded over to form the pleats whichincline from the center portion; of the rear blank upwardly toward theshoulder and terminate in the shoulder bands. Theplea-ts extend upwardlyand outwardly from the center button pair of the rear blank. It is thisbutton pair upon which theimaximum strain or weight is applied and thetendencyof the weight and tensionof the nether garments is thus to pulldown on the pleats. These pleats. direct the tension upwardly to theshoulder straps and the direction oii theg te nsion is. such that thestraps Its edges are inturned and tend to be drawn inwardly and upwardlyon the shoulder and resist the usual tendency of the shoulder straps toescape from the shoulder and permit the usual type of garment to waisttordrop. The two blanks are joined at the shoulder straps permanently. Iprovide buttonholes at the ends of the belt of the front blank so thatthe end belt buttons of the rear blank serve not merely for the supportof the nether garments'but also serve as means for joining the front andthe rearbla nks at the belt. I I also provide. a

snap at the bottom of the arm hole oneach side to keep the two sides orblanks of the garment. together.

I claim: 7

In a garment, a'front portion and a rear portion, and shoulder strapsconnect'in them, and means for securing the :front an rear portionstogether beneath thefar'ms to close the garment, and a pair or pleatsextending upwardly from a point in the middle ofthe rear portion of thegarment and adjacent the bottom thereof, to the shoulder straps,andclo'thes supporting means situated at a point adjacent theconvergence of said pleats.

Signed atChicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 4th day ofJanuary MRS. ANNA NIOODEMUS.

